Occasionally, we like to take a break from featuring Macs on discount and turn our attention full on to the iOS devices that make our day-to-day lives easier, better, more connected (and more distracted). So this week's round up of the latest, greatest deals on Apple gear will feature all your favorite handhelds, so let's get tapping.

If you've been excited about using Apple Pay, you reportedly won't have to wait much longer to use it. Rumors up until now have claimed that we might have to wait until late November to see the service, but a new report from Bank Innovation claims that we could see it before the end of the month.

Reports that PayPal was trying to cozy up with Apple for its mobile payment system are almost as old as the rumors about Apple Pay itself. We last reported on the rumors way back in January, and now a new report claims all that work came to naught. In fact, the veteran Internet payment company apparently signed a deal with Samsung to power its own fingerprint payment system for its devices.

HealthKit is easily one of the best selling points of iOS 8, but Apple fizzled some of that enthusiasm when it pulled HealthKit-enabled apps from its store not long after the operating system was loosed on the public. Apple did, however, claim that such apps would be available again "by the end of the month," and it looks as though it's lived up to that promise.

The comparative safety of data on Apple's devices has long been one of their chief selling points, and FBI Director James Comey just can't stand it when Apple plays up those features. And now that Google, too, has taken to tightening up its mobile operating system, he announced to reporters today that he'd been in talks with the companies. "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves above the law," he said, as reported by the Huffington Post.

Apple hasn't said much since reports started trickling in that the iPhone 6 Plus is subject to bending if you apply enough pressure, but today the company took to the Wall Street Journal and CNBC to defend itself. According to the Cupertino company itself, the issue isn't as bad as people have made it out to be. Indeed, it claims that only nine people have complained out of the millions that bought the device.

This week's refurbs, specifically in the MacBook Air range, are really a matter of horse trading. Bigger screen or faster flash-storage? Newer model versus nearly the same older, bigger model with only a tiny bump on the price tag? It's all a matter of what you need versus what you want. Also this week: the 2013 Mac Pro!

If you've ever found the concept of in-app browsers a little sketchy, iOS developer Craig Hockenberry (perhaps best known for working on Twitterific) claims you have a right to be worried. In a blog post today, Hockenberry demonstrated how it's possible for the developer of an in-app browser to record what you're typing on the screen, even if you're behind the supposed safety of secure login.

Yesterday we passed along a rumor that iOS 8.0.1 would be released soon to patch up a number of bugs, and, sure enough, Apple released it this morning. But the word from multiple sources is that the patch is a buggy mess than causes more problems than it solves, and Apple actually pulled the patch from its download servers not long ago. On the bright side, the update reportedly fixed the issues with HealthKit, so that's something, right?

The iPhone 6 Plus is impressively thin — but is it perhaps too thin? Since the device landed on shelves last week, several users have reported that the device has already started bending in their pockets. Lewis Hilsenteger of YouTube's Unbox Therapy set out to find what kind of stress it takes for Apple's newest device to warp, and he published the results in a video that runs just short of five minutes.